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Yellow Saddle
Guru
- Location
- Loch side.
The loose nut on the left fits inside the large nut on the crank eye so that you access the nut on the left's hex hole with an allan key pushed through the large nut on the crank itself.
Do not remove the nut on the crank at all. Besides, it is a left hand thread. Make absolutely sure you have the splines lined up properly. This is a blind spline and getting it wrong means you will open new spine grooves with the ease of a can opener opening a can of beans.
Do not remove the nut on the crank at all. Besides, it is a left hand thread. Make absolutely sure you have the splines lined up properly. This is a blind spline and getting it wrong means you will open new spine grooves with the ease of a can opener opening a can of beans.
Yellow Saddle
Guru
- Location
- Loch side.
Removal is simply the reverse. You put an 8mm(?) allen key through the large nut hole and keep on turning anti-clockwise until it pushes the crank off. It is a self-extracting design and the nut on the crank itself is the extractor cap.
Torque to 40NM when tightening the nut and make sure you have applied copper compound on the aluminium nut's threads before screwing it into the steel crank spindle.
Torque to 40NM when tightening the nut and make sure you have applied copper compound on the aluminium nut's threads before screwing it into the steel crank spindle.
Yellow Saddle
Guru
- Location
- Loch side.
Aha! Ignore what I said. I dot have my wits about me. Lemme think it over again.
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Hacienda71
Mancunian in self imposed exile in leafy Cheshire
- Location
- Wilmslow, Cheshire
You may need to unscrew the bit in the crank and insert the loose nut from the other side. 
Yellow Saddle
Guru
- Location
- Loch side.
OK, lets try again. Does the loose nut on the left fit inside the crank spindle? Forget about the crank itself, just try the nut.
Yellow Saddle
Guru
- Location
- Loch side.
https://sram-cdn-pull-zone-gsdesign.../95-6118-006-000_rev_d_1x11_mtb_cranksets.pdf
This is the generic instruction sheet for that crank but it doesn't show the exploded view of the crank nut. Basically you have a crank nut that's loose but trapped inside the crank and it is only accessible by undoing the silver nut on the crank itself, which is a left hand thread and has a larger hex hole than the actual crank nut.
This is the generic instruction sheet for that crank but it doesn't show the exploded view of the crank nut. Basically you have a crank nut that's loose but trapped inside the crank and it is only accessible by undoing the silver nut on the crank itself, which is a left hand thread and has a larger hex hole than the actual crank nut.
Hacienda71
Mancunian in self imposed exile in leafy Cheshire
- Location
- Wilmslow, Cheshire
Just unscrew the cap and insert from the otherwise. That is the only way to get that nut out on my gxp Sram cranks.
Thanks for all the replies.
The silver cap on the crank arm spins but is not threaded so it doesn't actually unscrew.
The Allen key keyway is wider on the cap that the silver screw, the silver screw is the matching thread for the drive crank shaft poking through the bottom bracket.
The silver cap on the crank arm spins but is not threaded so it doesn't actually unscrew.
The Allen key keyway is wider on the cap that the silver screw, the silver screw is the matching thread for the drive crank shaft poking through the bottom bracket.
Levo-Lon
Guru
Thats odd...all my sram and raceface cranks are the same..the bolt is lose fitted inside and the outer is the
Puller..
Or rather it is what the inner bolt pushes when undoing..
the only thing id look for is a snap ring holding the outer bolt..circlip etc as thats the only way the outer could freely rotate..as you appear to have no thread? Which it should...
is this crank set second hand ?
Puller..
Or rather it is what the inner bolt pushes when undoing..
the only thing id look for is a snap ring holding the outer bolt..circlip etc as thats the only way the outer could freely rotate..as you appear to have no thread? Which it should...
is this crank set second hand ?
